Quotes About Consciousness

Normal sensibility is a tissue of what has been conscious theory made habitual and returned to the pre-conscious, and, therefore, conscious theory may make an addition to sensibility even though it draws no (or no true) conclusion, formulates no general theory, in the scientific sense, which reconciles and makes quickly available the results which it describes.

[T]hey stretch you on a table. Then they bid you close your eyelids, And they mask you with a napkin, And the anæsthetic reaches Hot and subtle through your being.

Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often true, and that madness is a fiction lived in like a rented house

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil---the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

When the past is always with you, it may as well be present; and if it is present, it will be future as well.

We were late among the living.

Why were they whining then?...whining, damn them, whining… Because they'd have to give up their hope of living like an animal and return to an honest, conscious, human life. The prospect was hard.

The secret of life is paying absolute attention to what is going on. The enemy of life is distraction. If you're not present in the present, where the hell are you? Word of Wisdom No. 1.

I Think, Therefore, You Are

Physicist Pascual Jordan added, "We ourselves produce the results of measurement." And, by extension, he meant reality itself.

Someone who remains satisfied with the superficial pleasures of life is ignorant of the agitation deep within the mind. He is under the illusion that he is a happy person, but his pleasures are not lasting, and the tensions generated in the unconscious keep increasing, to appear sooner or later at the conscious level of the mind. When they do, this so-called happy person becomes miserable. So why not start working here and now to avert that situation?

El Buda examinó el fenómeno del ser humano examinando su propia naturaleza. Dejando a un lado toda idea preconcebida, exploró la realidad interior y descubrió que cada ser es un compuesto de cinco procesos, cuatro de ellos mentales y uno físico.

el Buda examinó también la mente y encontró que, en términos amplios y globales, constaba de cuatro procesos: consciencia (viññ??a), percepción (sañña), sensación (vedar?) y reacción (sa?kh?ra).

Cada vez que los sentidos entran en contacto con algún objeto, los cuatro procesos mentales se suceden a la velocidad del rayo y se repiten en cada momento de contacto subsiguiente; lo hacen a tal velocidad que no tenemos consciencia de lo que sucede, esta consciencia sólo se desarrolla hasta llegar al nivel consciente cuando una reacción determinada se ha repetido durante un largo período de tiempo y ha tomado una forma pronunciada e intensa.

La realidad externa es una realidad, pero nada más que superficial; en un nivel más profundo la verdad es que todo el universo, animado o inanimado, es un estado constante de devenir, de surgir y desaparecer. Cada uno de nosotros es, de hecho, una corriente de partículas subatómicas en cambio constante, junto a las cuales los procesos de consciencia, percepción, sensación y reacción cambian todavía más rápidamente que el proceso físico.

según el Dhamma, la ley de la naturaleza, la más importante es la acción mental. Los actos físicos o verbales asumen un significado totalmente distinto, dependiendo de la intención con la que estén hechos.

el Buda anunció: "La mente precede a todos los fenómenos, la mente es lo que más importa. La mente lo produce todo. Si con una mente impura hablas o actúas, entonces el sufrimiento te sigue, como la rueda del carro sigue la huella del animal uncido. Si con una mente pura hablas o actúas, entonces la felicidad te sigue como una sombra que nunca se separa"3.

Asleep, nobody is a hypocrite

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive.

Is it possible to view life through such a non-dualistic consciousness, while continuing life as we live it today? Unity and A Course in Miracles both assure us that it is possible, and try to teach us this Truth, and to bring this Truth into our daily lives by retraining our minds.

I could yet always feel that it was infinitely better to be than not to be. THE

The conscious process is reflected in the imagination the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.